ABSTRACT

As digital technologies play a key role across all aspects of our societies and in everyday life, teaching students about data is becoming increasingly important in schools and universities around the world. Bringing together international case studies of innovative responses to datafication, this book sets an agenda for how teachers, students and policy makers can best understand what kind of educational intervention works and why.

Learning to Live with Datafication is unique in its focus on educational responses to datafication as well as critical analysis. Through case studies grounded in empirical research and practice, the book explores the dimensions of datafication from diverse perspectives that bring in a range of cultural aspects. It examines how educators conceptualise the social implications of datafication and what is at stake for learners and citizens as educational institutions try to define what datafication will mean for the next generation.

Written by international leaders in this emerging field, this book will be of interest to teacher educators, researchers and post graduate students in education who have an interest in datafication and data literacies.

chapter 1|16 pages

Learning to live well with data

Concepts and challenges

chapter 2|18 pages

Datafication and the role of schooling

Challenging the status quo

chapter 3|26 pages

Turn off your camera and turn on your privacy

A case study about Zoom and digital education in South American countries

chapter 4|19 pages

Data classes

An investigation of the people that ‘do data’ in schools

chapter 5|20 pages

Educators' data literacy

Understanding the bigger picture

chapter 7|16 pages

The tipping point in the platformisation of Dutch public education?

How to approach platformisation from a values-based perspective

chapter 8|18 pages

“The Beatles with the lower score, it breaks my heart”

Framing a media education response to datafication and algorithmic recommendations in digital media infrastructures

chapter 9|16 pages

Critical algorithm literacy education in the age of digital platforms

Teaching children to understand YouTube recommendation algorithms

chapter 10|15 pages

Emerging from the shadows of datafication

A favourable turn for cultural studies

chapter 12|8 pages

Conclusion

Learning to live better with data

chapter 13|7 pages

Afterword

The future of datafication in education? Clouds, bodies and ethics